My parents got married in the early 80s in North Carolina, and it was a stressful day: my mother is the tenth of thirteen kids, so her parents’ house (where they were getting married) was FULL of people. My dad’s parents weren’t there, because they disowned him for marrying a black woman (his older brother came,…

My late husband and his best man were in charge of transporting the liquor and the wedding cake to the hall before heading off to the church. They very carefully filled the trunk of the borrowed Lincoln with all the booze, then gingerly set the cake on top.

This is amazing. Oh my goodness. I love this story.

My pops is black and my mom is white, and when they got married in the early 80s in buttfuck Colorado this was quite the anomaly/scandal. They couldn't find a black groom cake topper so they just sharpied in a white dude. Nothing says “special day” like blackface on your wedding cake

My aunt Bonnie’s second wedding was a small affair in Lake Tahoe. Her cake was from a chain grocery store, which, since it was located Tahoe, did regular wedding cake business and had a pretty large bakery section. My aunt’s fiancé, Steve, picked up the cake the morning of the wedding and came back to the cabin we…

Most orthodox women are not spending 4000-7000 on a dress. The vast majority of orthodox women are getting gowns through community gemachs. A gemach is a free or low cost rental ($250). Most modest gowns are easily modified and rebuilt. In communities where there sometimes 3 or 4 weddings a nights within the…

Eh, I felt better after crying it out and got on with my day.

I haven’t been able to score a meaningful relationship since my ex broke off the engagement, so when I saw him one day with a gorgeous woman and a baby, I went straight back to the office, locked myself in the bathroom and cried for the rest of the lunch break.

Kudos to whoever cast Tobias Menzies as Frank/Jack. He’s been phenomenal. After the scene where he prentends to breakdown to Claire and then says that he doesn’t have demons and that he’ll find out what she’s hiding, I totally understood that Jack was beyond redemption, nor would he ever seek it. However, he never…

I do agree that the show did a fantastic job of demonstrating that a rape victim’s “arousal” or other physical response to sexual stimulus has absolutely nothing to do with consent, and that is something that is not generally well understood. I think that it is a shame that it seemingly had to be a male victim to make…

i’m not saying it was necessary for it to be this graphic, because for me it definitely wasn’t, but i do support the creative decision to let this happen to Jamie (as horrible as that sounds). for some reason i feel like it kind of resonates with Jamie being a virgin until marriage and Claire being such a sexually…

Back in the day, I was often told that with my big 80s perm-curly red hair and similar features that I bore a resemblance to Tawny Kitaen from the Whitesnake video. So one night some girlfriends and I were out at a club and these guys were buying us drinks because they had somehow been led to believe that I was the…

I’m sexy and I know it.

There’s a story that goes around in my family of a woman my mother went to school with who was working at Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary back in the seventies and eighties. Back in the later years of the 1970s, she was out one night with her pals and this young American guy comes sidling up to her. Young American…

My brother LOVES telling this story, so it was easier to get him to text it to me than for me to remember every detail. For background, he was 10, I was 7, and we were on a Disney cruise ship. In his words: “I was about 10. You and I were asked by a cruise lady if we wanted to go to a kids room and play games. Robin…

Years ago I went to a posh luncheon in Boca Raton, FL, where Martha was speaking. One of her tips: Buy the chickens that lay the eggs that are blue or green, because it will be easier to get your kids to eat eggs in pretty colors, and every day will feel like Easter.